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• Late DWR Director David Kennedy Praised as State, National Leader

  - 2007-12-26

  SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- David N. Kennedy, director of the State Department of Water Resources from 1983-1998, died in Sacramento on Sunday, December 23. He was 71. The sixth of DWR's nine directors, Kennedy served in that leadership post longer than any other, appointed originally by Governor George Deukmejian and...

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• UC Berkeley skeptical of relevance of ethics test

  - 2007-05-18

  BERKELEY -- Fewer than half of faculty members and other employees at the University of California, Berkeley, have completed a required ethics course that some professors say is irrelevant. All 160,000 UC employees were told last year to complete the online course after the institution was stung...

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• Ethics test: UC Berkeley wary about relevance

  - 2007-05-18

  BERKELEY -- Fewer than half of UC Berkeley faculty members and other employees have completed a required ethics course that some professors say is irrelevant. All 160,000 University of California employees were told last year to complete the online course after the institution was stung by newspaper...

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• Australia a leader in ADHD drug use.

  - 2007-03-07

  Byline: Cathy O'Leary Mar 07, 2007 (The West Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- New research confirms Australia is a major prescriber of psychostimulant drugs to treat attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder ADHD. Research at the University of California, Berkeley found a 300 increase...

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• Runner, planner, professor try to unseat Berkeley mayor

  - 2006-10-18

  BERKELEY -- Four candidates with wildly different backgrounds, ideas and qualifications are vying to be the mayor of Berkeley. A Native-American leader who once ran thousands of miles across the nation, a former planning commissioner and university professor who four years ago worked to elect the current...

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• National Headliners

  - 1999-10-04

  Honored on Oct. 5 by fellow foreign service officers will be Ambassador-designate to Senegal Harriet L. Elam while former civic leader Velma Strode will be praised on Oct. 16 at a huge reception ... Actor Warren Beatty created a stir when he telephoned Chicago Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. about his...

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